Trinity joins Fairtrade
01.04.2009
Trinity University College is celebrating after becoming recognised as a Fairtrade University.
For the past two years the university has been working towards increasing the supply of Fairtrade products throughout the campus and has actively promoted Fairtrade consumption to staff and students. Academic and support staff across the campus, including the College Chaplain and Students’ Union have joined forces to support the College in making the transition.
“This initiative fits well with the University’s ethos as a Church College and coincides with Wales becoming the first Fairtrade nation ” said Anthony Samuel, lecturer in Marketing who spent time working at the Fairtrade Foundation in London last summer. “The pastoral care of students is a priority at Trinity and applying for Fairtrade status sends a clear message to the community that the culture at Trinity is caring – for the well-being of its own students and staff but for communities beyond its internal environment”.
"Fairtrade has changed the lives of millions of people across the developing world for the better” said Chaplain Revd Ainsley Griffiths. “It means that parents can afford to provide nourishing food for their families, communities can have easy access to clean water, children can be educated and the sick have adequate health care. It means that the poor can have a quality of life that we often take completely for granted. As a Church College the Christian values of justice and compassion are at the heart of our ethos and so it is wonderful that we are taking this small, but highly significant step, of ensuring that our power as consumers is used to benefit those who most need it."
School of Computing, Business and Tourism
Photograph: Trinity celebrates its Fairtrade status:
Dr Brian Clarke, Vandana Sahai, Gareth Cole, Anthony Samuel, Julia Ault and Revd Ainsely Griffiths.
Marketing Lecturer Anthony Samuel
Further information:
Eleri Beynon
Press Office
(01267) 676790 / 07968 249335
e.beynon@trinity-cm.ac.uk
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